Goodbye Age of Hadoop – Hello Cambrian Explosion of Deep Learning

Summary: Some observations about new major trends and directions in data science drawn from the Strata Hadoop conference in San Jose last week. This is always exciting, enervating, and exhausting but it remains the single best place to pick up on what's changing in our profession. This conference is on a world tour with four more stops before repeating next year. The New York show is supposed to be a little bigger (hard to imagine) but the San Jose show is closest to our intellectual birthplace. After all this is the place where to call yourself a nerd would be regarded as a humble brag.